Report back Seminar Early Intervention in Family and Preschool Children Services

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Report back SeminarEarly Intervention in
Family and Pre-school Children Services
- Actualization of the Spirits of IFSC
Learning from the Australian Experience
By Angela Chiu Centre Supervisor Western District
IFSC The Hong Kong Catholic Marriage Advisory
Council 20.3.2006
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1. The Australian National Agenda for Early
Childhood

• Government commitment to developing a National
  Agenda for Early Childhood
• Consultation showed broad support for development
  of a National Agenda for Early Childhood across
  the areas
• Early child and maternal health
• Early learning and care
• Child friendly communities
• Supporting families and parenting
• Improving outcomes for Indigenous children
• Working together

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What is the Stronger Families and Communities
Strategy?

• Four Initiatives
• Communities for Children - 142.4m
• Invest To Grow - 70.5m
• Local Answers - 137m
• Choice and Flexibility in Child Care - 125.3m

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Communities for Children

• 45 sites (communities) across Australia
• 142.4m over four years of funding per site
• Aims to help young children, their families and
  the broader community.

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Five priority areas

• Healthy young families
• Support for families and parents
• Early learning and development
• Child friendly communities
• Family and childrens services work effectively
  as a system

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Key features

• A new way for Government to provide funding to
  communities
• Place based
• Community driven
• Building community and community capacity
• Top-down, Bottom-up
• Collaborative governance / tight-loose control
• Early intervention, prevention and promotion

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Role of Facilitating Partners

• Bring the community together to talk about local
  issues that affect young children
• Establish a Communities for Children Committee
• Engage community leaders
• Engage existing service providers
• Promote, integrate coordinate effort

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Role of Facilitating Partners (cont)

• Build partnerships with local business
• Work with early childhood experts
• Manage funding and
• Report to Government.

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Examples of activities and services

• Home visiting
• Early learning and literacy
• Playgroups
• Parenting programs and family support services
• Boosting social inclusion and peer support for
  parents of young children.
• Child nutrition programs

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Integrated Family Service Centre (IFSC)
Three major components
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Treatment-oriented
Family Counselling Unit
Supporting families at risk (practical, emotional
training support)
Family Support Unit
Family Resource Unit
Open, development preventive
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2. Overview of IFSC - HK

• Objectives
• To provide range of preventive, development,
  supportive, remedial services to enhance
  functions of individuals and families
• To preserve and strengthen family as a unit
  build up supportive/caring community
• To identify problem early, provide early
  interventions to assist people in disadvantaged
  situations so as to help them to cope with
  crisis, regain self-resilience and restore
  functioning

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Overview of IFSC HK (cont)

• Principles
• Accessibility
• Early Identification
• Integration
• Partnership

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Overview of IFSC HK (cont)

• Spirit of IFSC
• Child-centered
• Family-focused
• Community-based

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3. Actualization of the Spirits of IFSC

• Early Intervention
• Early identification of needs
• Early intervention in terms of childrens early
  years
• Fill in service group of children services
• Fulfill the spirit of child-centered
• Efforts paid on enhancing parental functions for
  the benefit of children

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Actualization of the Spirits of IFSC (cont)

• Community Based
• It takes a community to raise a child
• Creating a caring community for children with
  different stakeholders in the community, e.g.
  Child Care Institutions, ICYC, schools and local
  peoples, etc.
• Community Education and Community Participation

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